1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: La Grande Dame

[Note: We’re launching The 1M/1M Incubation Radar with La Grande Dame today and will be featuring many more sub-$1 million revenue companies that we believe can reach the prized $1 million mark. We will be bringing the series to the attention of seed stage investors for those entrepreneurs looking for financing. And we hope it

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Bob Aholt, Pasadena Angels (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you done in the past 20 months? Well, I guess each member did a different number of investments? Bob: Exactly. I’ve got some numbers at the high level for the group. We average about nine to twelve investments per year as a

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Bob Aholt, Pasadena Angels (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: And who does the screening? Bob: Pasadena Angel members; they’re actually investors. Our executive director will look at everything that comes in. And, again, if the guy’s in North Carolina – and I’m not trying to pick on North Carolina or North Dakota or North Sasquatch

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Bob Aholt, Pasadena Angels (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You’re trying to bring some efficiency to the process, right? Bob: Efficiency is certainly part of it. Effectiveness is another part of it; understanding correlations and causes is another part of it, so yeah, I think all those things go hand in hand. Irina: So, you get

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Jobscience ,San Francisco

Jobscience makes Force.com-based recruiting and talent management applications that help companies to improve the quality of their talent base by helping them find, train, and retain the most highly qualified employees.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Bob Aholt, Pasadena Angels (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So you have other angel groups in the Los Angeles area? Bob: Yes. There’s Tech Coast Angels and they’re, like I said, a lot like us, but they’ve broken down into chapters so they have a chapter in San Diego, one in L.A., and one in

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Monetizing People Search: MyLife.com CEO Jeff Tinsley (Part 6)

SM: What is the benefit of having a paid personal profile? JT: By having a profile you can get access to the actual directory for your own benefit and be notified when people search for you. The demand for people finding each other is so huge it is shocking.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Bob Aholt, Pasadena Angels (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the second interview in my series of interviews with angel investors and angel groups. This time I talked to Robert (Bob) Aholt, a vice chairman of the Pasadena Angels based out of Los Angeles. Irina: Hi Bob, tell us briefly about your personal background and

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